Cisco N9300 Series Smart switch

Cisco N9300 Series Smart Switches

Future-proof and secure your data center

Cisco N9300 Series Smart Switches support L4 zone-based segmentation and offer an extensible platform for future hardware-accelerated services.

Where security meets the network


Cisco N9300 Series Smart Switches with Cisco Hypershield

Architectural shift

Simplified, scalable networking and security with Cisco Nexus Dashboard and Cisco Hypershield for hyper-distributed data centers.

Intelligent, unified architecture

Self-qualifying updates with dual data plane. Consistent enforcement across workloads and networks in public and private clouds.

High performance

Get 800G services throughput, enabling high-speed data transfer and superior network performance.

Cost efficiency

Consolidates networking, security, and other services into a single physical form factor.

Cisco N9300 Series Smart Switches models

9324C-SE1U

This model unifies data center networking and security.

  • 24 100G ports
  • 800G services throughput
  • 4 DPUs (AMD Elba)
  • 4.8 T Silicon One (E100)
  • Ideal for cloud-edge, zone-based segmentation, and Data Center Interconnect (DCI)

9348Y2C6D-SE1U

This model unifies data center networking and security.

  • 48-port 25G, 6-port 400G, 2-port 100G
  • 800G services throughput
  • 2 DPUs (AMD Giglio)
  • 4.8 T Silicon One (E100)
  • Ideal for top of rack (ToR)
Cisco N9300 Series Smart Switch

Cisco N9300 Series Smart Switch

Infusing security into the data center fabric at scale offers robust and comprehensive protection, all while taking simplicity, performance, and efficiency to the next level.


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Embed stateful services into the data center fabric

Future-proof customer data center infrastructure by offering an extensible platform for hardware-accelerated services.

Secure the AI-scale data center

Combine an advanced AI-native, hardware-accelerated distributed security architecture with the data center fabric.

Cisco Hypershield

Cisco Hypershield is a groundbreaking security architecture designed to defend modern, AI-scale data centers.

Cisco N9300 Series Smart Switches

AI-native, hardware-accelerated network services with the Cisco DPU switch.